BUREAUCRACY KILLS: “The reality is that if it were not for some of the actions taken by the CDC, and the Food and Drug Administration, the United States would have had a greater number of more reliable coronavirus tests available for use far more quickly. We might have even been ahead of the curve.”

LIKE HARVEY WEINSTEIN, HE POSES AS MORALLY SUPERIOR WHILE COMING IN SHORT: ‘I’m So Sorry I Worked for This Guy’: Ex-Staffers React to Bloomberg Reversal on Field Organizers. “Mr. Bloomberg’s presidential campaign had promised at its outset that it would finance a field program through the November election, attracting staff members like Ms. Conrad with generous pay and benefits. Then, upon his withdrawal from the race earlier this month, Bloomberg officials said the former New York mayor would continue to employ some of his campaign’s field staff through an independent campaign organization. In the end, Mr. Bloomberg, a multibillionaire, chose to do none of those things.”

MOST AMERICANS ARE DAMN RIGHT: Most Americans Think Media Have Done A Terrible Job Covering Coronavirus.

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YET IT IS SURPRISINGLY HELPFUL FOR TOLERATING CONDESCENDING LECTURES FROM THE WHO:  WHO thinks alcohol is an ‘unhelpful coping strategy’ for coronavirus cabin fever.

You know what’s great for cabin fever? Not putting free citizens under house arrest without a trial. THAT is a great remedy. Let’s try it, shall we?

IF YOU DOUBT HIM IT CAN ONLY BE BECAUSE YOU’RE RACIST:   Mexican governor sparks outrage after claiming poor are ‘immune’ to coronavirus.

THEY WANT A STAMPEDE:  Distortion and fear: the MSM won’t quit doing this, because they think (know?) it works.

—The US is nowhere near having the highest number of cases per capita. Comparing absolute numbers in different countries without correcting for population means nothing, and one doesn’t need advanced math to realize that. Look at the cases per million numbers here, and you’ll see that the US has one of the world’s lowest rates (at the moment, anyway), not the highest at all. That will change and go up, of course, as testing continues. But it’s the more important statistic than sheer number of cases, although neither tells us very much right now.
—Then there’s deaths per million. It’s a figure that means more, because it’s less dependent on the vagaries of mass testing (although it still does rely on proper testing of the very ill and dying, of course). On that measure, the current figure for the US is extremely low, similar to Germany which is considered to be doing very well. But this is not a number in which the media is especially interested because it’s nowhere near as effective for its uses.

WELL, IT’S MORE THOROUGH THAN MY “THE GOVERNORS ARE GETTING THEIR HUGO BOSS UNIFORMS ON”:  Coronavirus panic makes no sense so I’ve got a few theories.

One minor quibble: no the guy who did the model isn’t right when he says our behavior changed the curve. Because when he said that England had been in lockdown for two days, so that wouldn’t change anything. No. He’s revising his estimates (and back and forth again) because he knows the anti-virus test is going to leave egg on his face.

WE HAVE ALREADY FIGURED THAT ONE OUT:  COVID-19 is NOT going to overwhelm our healthcare system.

CURIOSER AND CURIOSER, SAID ALICE:  Covid 19 and US Mortality.

OH, DEAR. ANOTHER FAILED GAMBIT. AND THIS ONE ALMOST DESTROYED US. I’M AFRAID OF WHAT THE LEFT WILL DO NEXT:  ABC News/WaPo Poll: Trump approval at highest ever, majority approve of handling of pandemic

Tempt not a desperate party, etc….

FOR IS IT NOT WRITTEN, THE STUPID YOU SHALL ALWAYS HAVE WITH YOU?  Homefront Hysteria From Race-Obsessed Writer.

ROFL. MEXICO BELIEVES OUR PRESS. LIKE WE HAVE ANYTHING HERE THEY DON’T HAVE WORSE THERE:  Mexico Tells Americans Not To Cross Border.

DOESN’T MATTER. GOVERNORS LIKE MY IDIOT WOULD RATHER CONTINUE STOMPING ON OUR FACES AND HOPING IT HURTS ORANGEMANBAD:  Trump Admin Developing New Guidelines For States On Coronavirus Mitigation Measures.

WELL NOW WE KNOW WHOM OUR MEDIA WORKS FOR. I STILL SAY WE SEND THEM TO THEIR BOSSES:  China Claims Get Repeated Ad Nauseum In Media.

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OPEN THREAD: Some say that it’s illegal in 17 States, and that it’s recently begun releasing pop records under the pseudonym of Lady Gaga. All we know, is it’s called the Open Thread!

FROM THE FOLKS AT LAW SCHOOL TRANSPARENCY, a report on debt, diversity, and the destructive effect of the U.S. News rankings.

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FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, Executive Order to Order the Selected Reserve and Certain Members of the Individual Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty.

Related: More than 9,000 retired Army medical personnel respond to call for assistance with coronavirus pandemic.

GOOD NEWS: Abbott Launches 5-Minute Covid-19 Test for Use Almost Anywhere. “The medical-device maker plans to supply 50,000 tests a day starting April 1, said John Frels, vice president of research and development at Abbott Diagnostics. The molecular test looks for fragments of the coronavirus genome, which can be detected in as little as five minutes when it’s present at high levels. A thorough search to definitively rule out an infection can take up to 13 minutes, he said.”

FEATHERY FIND: One of the last dino raptors lived in New Mexico.

LOOK AT HER GO!  WHO’S THAT REALLY TALL GIRL WITH THE BROAD SHOULDERS AND THE …?:  The U.S. Department of Justice weighs in on the side of limiting girls’ sports teams to … uh … biological girls.

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